Confession and Memory in Early Modern English Literature: Penitential Remains

by Paul D. Stegner, Teichmann

Overview

This is the first study to consider the relationship between private confessional rituals and memory across a range of early modern writers, including Edmund Spenser, Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare, and Robert Southwell.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781137558633
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	10/28/2015
Series:	Early Modern Literature in History Series
Edition description:	1st ed. 2016
Pages:	232
Product dimensions:	5.60(w) x 8.60(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Paul D. Stegner is Associate Professor of English at California Polytechnic State University, USA. His essays have appeared in Shakespeare Studies, Studies in Philology, Journal of English and Germanic Philology, and several edited collections, including The Oxford Handbook of Edmund Spenser.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
1. Confession and Memory in the Age of Reformations
2. Confession and Redemptive Forgetting in Spenser's Legend of Holiness: Memories of Sin, Memories of Salvation
3. The Will to Forget: Ovidian Heroism and the Compulsion to Confess in Marlowe's Doctor Faustus
4. 'Try what repentance can': Hamlet, Confession, and the Extraction of Interiority
5. Will and the Reconciled Maid: Rereading Confession and Remembering Sin in Shakespeares Sonnets
6. Treasonous Reconciliations: Robert Southwell, Religious Polemic, and the Criminalization of Confession
Conclusion: Memories of Confession in Seventeenth-Century England
Notes
Bibliography
Index